Absinthe Legal - Articles
Pot legalization
by
Jason Schwartz, LMSW

Mark Kleiman directs us to a new poll on the subject with only a 6% margin against legalization. His analysis of the poll: Rasmussen doesn't give the wording, and the accompanying article is written largely from a pro-legalization viewpoint (Rasmussen tends ...
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Legalities.
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Amanda
... ebsite. On this website, they will help you fight for your children. Their visitation program is designed to help guide their clients through the complex and often changing legal system. Some of their visitation programs include: visitation establishment and modification, grandparent’s rights to visitation, nationwide service and much more. Est ...
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This is legal ...
by
Dave
This was our birthday cake @ Lambda Center on Saturday.Twenty-five recovering alcoholics celebrated October as their sobriety month. todAAy i AAm grAAteful & thAAnkfulthat I got to chair a meeting about FEAR and its relationship to Step Six for all of the family support of recovering alcoholics and addicts for the little Halloween party we had at ...
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Another legalization op-ed
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Jason Schwartz, LMSW

This time in the Wall Street Journal. More of the same. The growing chorus of voices calling for legalization, regulation and taxation makes one ask, where are the other Kleimans calling for something other than the status quo or legalization?
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Legal Rights for Embryos?
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Linda MacDonald Glenn

... en a compelling analysis of a bizarre piece of legislation granting individual rights to embryos. According to Arons, "The state of Louisiana has assigned to human embryos a legal identity with rights that can be litigated in court—regardless of whether the embryo is in a Petri dish in a lab or in a womb, so long as rights have attach[ed] to an un ...
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Misuse of legal drugs
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Jason Schwartz, LMSW

A troubling trend continues: 15.4 percent of 12th-grade students reported nonmedical use of legal prescription or over-the-counter medications This is particularly troubling for 2 reasons. First, as JAMA recently pointed out, overdose deaths associated with prescrip ...
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